The Story Of Camera Glasses
Some would have a camera at the top of a pen. Others would have it on their watches that would videotape while the spy is putting on an act to look at time. While that may be true, the reality is that some people actually use spy cameras especially those whose jobs would involve them to nose around or setup some form of surveillance. An even better thing is that you can own spy cameras yourself. Just check to avoid doing illegal things using it to prevent you from landing in trouble.
Camera glasses are things of spy movies. The only thing more disturbing than the fact that they're used in everyday life is the probability that there is a sufficient demand for them internationally. Instead of being reserved for some backwoods survivalist cult, a quick Google search will find any range of physical and web-based outlets where anyone in practically any country can buy a set of camera glasses. These camera glasses can set you back anywhere from around US$ 50 for the school boy spy-on-the-girls-in-gym-class variety to 1000s of dollars for the undercover, top secret, high-grade, special forces military specification model that makes you feel you've had computers imbeded in your cornea. A pair of camera glasses like these may be the nearest thing you can get to being either a T-1000 Terminator or an MI6 agent.
Now more than fiction camera glasses do occupy an interesting place in the evolution of gadgets and widgets, from fantasy fiction and Maxwell Smart's "shoe-phone" to real-life, not-to-leave-home-without essential undercover man equipment. In many ways, camera glasses hold a similar position worldwide of modern day popular culture as video conferencing, remote satellite surveillance imaging, video telephones and the now smartphones. Just twenty years ago camera glasses were thought of as nothing more than juvenile toys.
The first time I came across the concept of a videophone conference was in a Disney comic circa the 1980s. Daisy and Donald were making plans via Uncle Gyro's new "fandangled crackpot invention" - a TV screen with a small camera built into the top casing connected to a telephone. Today, I can speak with my editor via the webcam/microphone apparatus built into the top of my laptop computer screen. I recollect the back pages of the same comic presenting ads for zit-makers, switchblade combs, sea monkeys, x-ray specs, and of course, some type of practical joke camera glasses.
Camera glasses may have been fiction once upon a time, but they're not the fantasy of books and comics today. In fact, these camera glasses evolved a lot throughout the years you can now find them in any color and style. A lot of the camera glasses on the market at present would look more at home on an Olympic speed skater or a gold medal-winning sailboard rider. Sure, they were cool back in the late eighties and the early nineties, but a pair of these camera glasses are certainly not going to help even the most invisible of men keep themselves under cover and safe. Remember, when it pertains to camera glasses or any glasses for the matter, fashion first function later!
